For users who are publishing very frequently ( several times an hour ) it would be nice to delete all log files in one click. Today you have click through all of the pages of logs and use the select all option which will only delete about 20 logs at a time.
We generate 576 logs per day and would need to click the select all pages 29 times to keep up with clearing the log files. This means on Monday we have we have 1152 logs to delete from the weekend.
It would also be nice to be able to turn off the publishing logs. We could turn it back on when we need to find a problem.
To get really fancy, it would be cool to have an option that only keeps the last 2 or 3 recent publishing logs.
The ability to purge logs on a scheduled basis is included in the 6.6 release. There is a pre-defined Task for this, and also the ability to schedule it.
I believe the pre-defined Task uses a “number of days” parameter. That is, if you put in 10, then all logs 10 days or older will be purged.
You can of course write new Tasks and schedule them. You can also put tasks at the end of Editions, so that for example, the logs could be purged after a certain edition ran.
Where do you find this in the system? I’ve been looking for a way to purge log files, but it’s not readily apparent?
We actually opened a support ticket recently and they said that there’s not much that can be done for this. I see this thread and wonder where the feature is…
[QUOTE=gordonms;16176]Where do you find this in the system? I’ve been looking for a way to purge log files, but it’s not readily apparent?
We actually opened a support ticket recently and they said that there’s not much that can be done for this. I see this thread and wonder where the feature is…[/QUOTE]
The support answer you got may reflect what version you are on. The purge Task was first added in version 6.6. Prior to that, custom SQL/DBMS scripts were typically used.